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Re:Reading the NSA’s codebase: LemonGraph review by superbatfish on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:28PM (#17735206)
What's with the name??

There is already a well-known and popular library for graph analysis (in C++) named "Lemon Graph Library". It is 10 years old. As far as I can tell, this new library is not related in any way. (Am I mistaken?)

Did they not simply google for the words "lemon graph" before they published this code base? Or am I missing something?

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Re:Reading the NSA’s codebase: LemonGraph review by isaachier on Friday August 10, 2018 @02:28PM (#17735683)
My guess of how this evolved: LMDB => LemonDB.
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Re:Reading the NSA’s codebase: LemonGraph review by xtrapolate on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:29PM (#17736124)
Do you seriously think they care about re-using a name for a throw-away non-classified project? People have better things to do with their time.
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Re:Reading the NSA’s codebase: LemonGraph review by ralston on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:08PM (#17736365)
The idea of the NSA googling `lemon graph` then saying "Welp, looks like someone else already has it. Back to the drawing board", is actually pretty hilarious.
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